Cooking stove or range



( 0 Model.)

E. W. ANTHONY.

0001mm STOVE 0R RANGE. I No. 379,354. Patented Mar. 13. 1888.

"Unites STATES TATENT EDGAR W. ANTHONY, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COOKING STOVE OR RANGE.

ESPECIPICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 379,354, dated March 13, 1888.

Application filed October 2'2, 1886. Serial No. 216,931. (No model.)

To all whom it 72mg concern:

Be it known that l, EDGAR XV. ANTHONY, of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cooking Stoves or Ranges, of

' which the following is a full, clear, and exact In certain classes of cooking stoves or ranges,especially in the smaller varieties thereof, it is desirable to provide an ash-pan having considerable capacity, and which is removable from the end of the stove; but assuch stoves and ranges are now constructed this is practically impossible with due regard to the provision of sufficient oven-space. To accomplish this I have so formed the end of a stove or range that accessible spaceis afforded of sufficient dimensions to receive an ash-pan of large capacity; and this object is attained without diminishing or in any way encroaching upon the oven-space. I obtain this result by forming a part of the space for containing the ashpan within or underneath the hearthplate, and I provide access to this space by attaching the hearth and the wall connected therewith which forms the front and a portion of the ends of the space to one corner of the stove in such a manner that it may be swung outward laterally to uncover and expose the ash-pit. This construction enables me to provide also an entrance to the grate of the stove in front of the end wall thereof by forming the hearth-plate in two sections and making the inner section, or that next the front wall, rounded or curved upward and inward. This accomplishes two purposes it saves space and affords ready access to the upper surface of the grate, while providing by the same means a free vertical passage for clinkers and other refuse from the front edge of the grate into the front portion of the ash-pan.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of a stove having the features of my invention, the hearth-plate beingswung open to show the ash-pit and ash-pan. Fig. 2 is a viewin vertical section, enlarged, of sufficient of the stove to show my invention. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are details in perspective,further illustrating the construction and operation of my invention.

a is the end plate of the stove; a, the firepot; a the ash-pit; c the ash pant The ashpit space is formed below the grate a, a portion of the space being embraced within the walls a of the stove proper, while another portion is exterior to the vertical plane of i n'er of the stove, so as to be swung laterally, as.

represented in Fig. 1, to expose theash-pan. As will be obvious, this construction enables me to use a large ash-pan Without diminishing or in any way interfering with the oven-space (P, as large a part of the ash-pan as desired being permitted to project beyond the wall or end plate, a, into the cavity or recess of the hearth-plate chamber.

The section 0 of the hearth-plate preferably is curved upward andinward, and itis hinged by the lug or hook c at its outer rear corner to the hearth-plate B, so as to be swung laterally thereon and expose the opening 0 in the end plate, a, and thus afford access to the upper surface of the grate and at the same time uncover the recess or opening a in the inner portion of the hearthplate, which permits access to the ash-pit 0. so that the clinkers and ashes sliced from the grate may be discharged through these two openings directly into the front portion of the ash-pan. I

The hearth-plate when closed is secured to the stove-plate by engagement of the notch d in the former with the catch d, which projects from the end plate, a, of the stove.

The pivoted section or closing-plate 0 may have openings 0 for the admission of air .to the fire-pot, and a slide, 0 for closing the openings, and it is locked to the plate B, when closed, by a latch, 0 and a lug, c.

I am aware that in a cooking-stove an auxiliary oven-section has been pivotally connected to the main or fixed portion of the stove. I am also aware that in a cooking-stove an ashpit has been provided of greater horizontal extent than the ash-pan therein,so that the pan may be adjusted to different positions within the ash-pit, the pit and the hearth-wall being formed integrally with the stove in the ordinary manner. I am also aware thatin a cooking'stove a portion of the front plate of the stove, having a hearthplate connected thereto, has been pivoted to one corner of the stove, so as to be swung outward to permit the removal of the ash-pan. I claim none of these.

I believe, however, that I am the first to provide in a stove or range an ash-pit which is embraced partly within the walls of the stove proper and partly within the walls of a piv' oted hearth-plate; the first to provide a pivoted hearth-plate which has vertical and inclined depending plates,which constitute three sides of the chamber of an ash-pit; and the first to provide, in connection with a stove or range, a pivoted and recessed hearthplate and a pivoted attachment for covering such recess in a plane with an opening in the end plate of the stove, and with the top of the grate of the stove whereby the grate may be reached for the agitation of the fuel thereon and for the dislodgment of clinkers therefrom.

Having thus fully described myinvention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. In a cooking stove or range, the combination of the stove or range having a section .of the ashpit a with the swinging hearthplate B, the downward-extending plate b, also forming a section of the ash-pit chamber a and the ash-pan a shaped to extend beyond the front edge of the grate into the section of the ash-pit below the hearth-plate and its covering-plate c, as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination, with the fuel grate and the ash-pit of a stove or range, of a pivoted front covering-section, which embraces an upwardly and outwardly flaring plate which projects beyond the plane of the vertical end plate of such stove or range, substantially triangular end plates, and a horizontal hearthplate, the fuel-grate and the hearth-plate being in essentially the same horizontal plane, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination, with the ash-pit a and grate a of a stove or range, of the pivoted covering-section having projecting vertical portion flaring outwardly from the bottom toward the top, horizontal hearth-plate, which is cut away or recessed at the rear, and the swinging registered section 0, pivoted to the horizontal hearth-plate, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the stove having the grate (0*, ash-pit a, and the end wall, a, having the vertical opening a in a plane with the top of the grate, of the hearth-plate section B, having rear horizontal recess or opening, 0 and the pivoted attachment 0, which serves to cover both the vertical and the horizontal opening, wherebyaccess to the fuel-chamber is afforded for the agitation of the contents thereof and for the discharge of refuse into the ash-pit orash-pan at a point outside the outer edge of the grate, substantially as described.

EDGAR WV; ANTHONY.

Witnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, FRED. B. DOLAN. 

